To the Sibrevkom, Comrade Chutskaev,

I am sending you a letter from M. Bagaev. I charge you with verifying the facts set forth in his letter, investigating the cause of the assignment of rates disproportionate to the harvest, and punishing those guilty of exceeding their authority in the collection of the prodnalog and in the persecution of peasants, as well as establishing a picture of tax collection in other volosts of Novo-Nikolaevsk province.

It is necessary to adopt specially energetic measures toward complete re-sowing of the places that suffered from improper collection of the prodnalog.

Write me about the fulfillment 329.

Chairman of Sovnarkom V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Written 6 March 1923

First published in 1945

in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the typewritten text signed by V. I. Lenin